Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.
Seneca the YoungerWhat if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.
Seneca the YoungerA good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
Seneca the YoungerWhat is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
Seneca the Younger